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Younger
by Pamela Redmond Satran
Review of Book in comparison to the TV Series.
My husband and I watched the TV series Younger this year and loved it. It was a lot of fun to see how someone around our age would adapt to the 20 something scene. So when Younger was the daily deal on Audible I had to pick it up.
First - it is clear the TV show is based on this book but has definitely been expanded to include more characters and situations. The main character list only includes Alice, Josh, Maggie and Lindsay with a few appearances by Alice’s daughter. I really liked the expanded cast a little better from the TV show. There are a lot more quirky characters and moments in that.
Second – I liked the Josh in the book much more than the Josh from the show. Here are the main differences. Josh in the book is an established 25. He is a game designer who has just broken off an engagement and decided not to join corporate America but has finished some of his college. He is getting ready to go to Japan to learn some more about game design. The best thing about this was that it was easier to see why Alice would fall for him. He is smart and they have fun together but at the same time I felt that emotionally and intellectually they were similar.
Josh on the show is a hot Tatoo artist that didn’t go to college and is still very busy with the bros and bar scene. He is really nice on the show but he always seems really young still and while yes he brings out the inner 20 something in Alice I never see them as super compatible long term.
Third – The hard thing about reading the book is being in Alice’s head as she overanalyzes some of the social situations. She has been discriminated against because of her age but I find she is guilty of the same things. I did really like some of the realizations that she made and how empowered she became by the end but her internal thoughts started to grate a little. On the show all these revelations are made situationally and so they were more entertaining and easier to take in.
Fourth – The show and the expanded cast have the better main story lines. Possibly this is because there are just more of them. While I prefer the romance story arc of the book I like the situations and secondary character story arcs better on the show. Alice’s boss for instance in the book is a single mother of three that seems to take all the credit for Alice’s ideas. While on the show she is a single woman in her 40s looking for love and might have started by being a pain in Alice’s butt but she also has some great redeeming qualities to her that make her character much more three dimensional.
Overall: I liked the social issues about women, motherhood and ageism brought up in this book. It is difficult to be a woman and know how to juggle family, career and home. I also like that it flips the script on the younger/older relationship issues. Who says that only older men can date attractive younger women? I am a firm believer that people are people and when you find someone you click with no matter the age different and gender you should just go with it no matter the social norms.
I totally prefer the TV show to the book in most regards but I’m glad that I read the authors original concept.
My husband and I watched the TV series Younger this year and loved it. It was a lot of fun to see how someone around our age would adapt to the 20 something scene. So when Younger was the daily deal on Audible I had to pick it up.
First - it is clear the TV show is based on this book but has definitely been expanded to include more characters and situations. The main character list only includes Alice, Josh, Maggie and Lindsay with a few appearances by Alice’s daughter. I really liked the expanded cast a little better from the TV show. There are a lot more quirky characters and moments in that.
Second – I liked the Josh in the book much more than the Josh from the show. Here are the main differences. Josh in the book is an established 25. He is a game designer who has just broken off an engagement and decided not to join corporate America but has finished some of his college. He is getting ready to go to Japan to learn some more about game design. The best thing about this was that it was easier to see why Alice would fall for him. He is smart and they have fun together but at the same time I felt that emotionally and intellectually they were similar.
Josh on the show is a hot Tatoo artist that didn’t go to college and is still very busy with the bros and bar scene. He is really nice on the show but he always seems really young still and while yes he brings out the inner 20 something in Alice I never see them as super compatible long term.
Third – The hard thing about reading the book is being in Alice’s head as she overanalyzes some of the social situations. She has been discriminated against because of her age but I find she is guilty of the same things. I did really like some of the realizations that she made and how empowered she became by the end but her internal thoughts started to grate a little. On the show all these revelations are made situationally and so they were more entertaining and easier to take in.
Fourth – The show and the expanded cast have the better main story lines. Possibly this is because there are just more of them. While I prefer the romance story arc of the book I like the situations and secondary character story arcs better on the show. Alice’s boss for instance in the book is a single mother of three that seems to take all the credit for Alice’s ideas. While on the show she is a single woman in her 40s looking for love and might have started by being a pain in Alice’s butt but she also has some great redeeming qualities to her that make her character much more three dimensional.
Overall: I liked the social issues about women, motherhood and ageism brought up in this book. It is difficult to be a woman and know how to juggle family, career and home. I also like that it flips the script on the younger/older relationship issues. Who says that only older men can date attractive younger women? I am a firm believer that people are people and when you find someone you click with no matter the age different and gender you should just go with it no matter the social norms.
I totally prefer the TV show to the book in most regards but I’m glad that I read the authors original concept.